] It is as if we had signed an international stupidity
] pact, one that required us to ignore the evidence, to
] hand out new rights without asking for the simplest
] assessment of need. If the stakes were trivial, no one
] would care. But intellectual property (IP) is important.
] These are the ground rules of the information society.
] Mistakes hurt us. They have costs to free speech,
] competition, innovation, and science. Why are we making
] them?

I don't think I could have written a better apraisal of the state of things myself if I tried. This article is chock full of great quotes.

James Boyle: Deconstructing stupidity

] With Earth Day just around the corner, there is good news
] for Davidson County recyclers: Curby, the curbside
] recycling service in Metro Nashville, this week started
] accepting plastic bottles.
]
] Milk jugs, household cleaner bottles, shampoo and lotion
] bottles and soft drink and water bottles %u2014 if it's
] plastic, they'll take it.

HURRAY!!!!

Curby recycling service now will pick up plastic bottles - Wednesday, 04/20/05

] Put briefly, it's a WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network)
] router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box
] that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for
] multiple computers to use.

hmm.. I was thinking of getting a Junxion box, but I might build me one of these instead.

EVDO StompBox Project

] CONGRATULATIONS Jami Anderson for your beautiful
] creation.

ooh! lookie! a picture of Jen in her TP wedding gown. Nice to see how great she'd look all in white!

Wedding Contest

] ''About 2½ hours. Jennifer (Knight) kept getting
] light-headed because she drank wine on top of sinus
] medicine, so we had to fix it a couple of times. It kept
] ripping whenever she sat down to put her head between her
] knees. Luckily, she is a size 4, so all those extra
] layers I had to wrap around her hips didn't end up making
] her look like the Michelin Man.''

ah... my ex-girlfriend finally finds her wedding dress!

And the bride wore double-ply

] A British motorist, driving home from work with his car
] window wound down, had his nose broken by a flying frozen
] sausage

If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard this story...

Motorist Injured by Flying Frozen Sausage

] While the economists debate, the tight market is changing
] lives. Sharon McKee just bought a one-bedroom, one-bath
] condominium, without parking, in the Logan Circle
] neighborhood of the District. It was listed at $375,000,
] but McKee raised her offer to $412,000 to beat out
] several other bidders.

I-N-S-A-N-E

In Real Estate Fever, More Signs of Sickness

As if being Mr. T wasn't funny enough...

Be nice to yo Moms FOOL!

] "We sprung it on the engineers one day," he said,
] recalling their surprise at how small it was at the time.
] "There were only eight guys in the room. Cooper said
] 'Anybody who doesn't believe this can be done, leave the
] room.'"
]
] No one did. But it was another 10 years and a total of
] $100 million in development costs before the phone was
] officially unveiled in 1983 %u2014 the delay resulting
] mostly from the need to build towers and infrastructure

another great example of how 'innovation' doesn't come quick or easy. Now, the US market for cell communiatons produces over $73B in revenue each year and is growing nearly 20% per year still.

First cell phone was a true 'brick'

] Inefficiencies in the medical industry, along with
] advances in chip manufacturing and design, will likely
] provide chipmakers with one of their big opportunities
] for growth, Barrett said recently in a brief interview.

Gee Craig, glad you woke up.

Health care's the ticket, Craig Barrett says